The audience loved it, but the May Queen, whose father was on the board of trustees, was not amused. My crime was substituting Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" for the traditional May Day processional on the school's I was a bored and uninspired student at Miss Porter's until I was asked to leave on May 2nd, in my junior year. Went first to my older sister Gigi, who was even briefly a runway model, then to my baby sister Bobbie, who waddled through junior high and metamorphosed in her sophomore year into a teen queen. For all the hoopla about my looks, I wasn't considered the beauty in my family. I grew up the third and invisible child of five, the "brain" in a family that valued only athletic achievement. I am clearly in the third category, and at this point I'd like to thrust it right back. They say that some people are born great, some people achieve greatness and some people have greatness thrust upon them. To the thousands of people who come here regularly and chant my name at the gates. They are both for the benefit and convenience of the national news media and a political concession Granted, I have my own trailer, which we call "Tara," and I'mĪllowed "special privileges," but let no one believe that these gifts flow from the benevolence of the great state of Georgia. I've been in a lot of places and fantasized about being in a lot of others, but I certainly never dreamed I'd end up in the Hardwick Women's Correctional Facility. Except maybe Burl Ives, and I think he might be dead. Holding Out is a call to arms you won't soon forget.I think I should start this off by saying that I am the last person on earth you would expect to end up a political prisoner. The eye-popping results make for the wisest, funniest, and most provocative book you'll read this year. Now someone is using dirty tricks, underhanded tactics, and outright terror to stop Lauren and her movement. The male power structure - and Lauren's new boyfriend - are miserable about women holding out. A majority of women across America agreed. But it was Lauren's brilliant idea to stage a protest that would hit men where they live: no sex. Worse, the abuser stayed in office, no blame, no shame. Like millions of American women, Lauren Fontaine, thirty-six-year-old Atlanta financial wizard and single mother, was outraged when the wife of a top government leader committed suicide after enduring years of spousal abuse. Not since Erica Jong's Fear of Flying has a novel been as stunningly sexy as it is smart. Faulk updates for the nineties the tale of Lysistrata - who persuaded the women of Athens to withhold sex from their husbands to end a war. In a love story that goes to the very heart of male-female relations, Anne O.
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